The Diocese of Leeds has the largest church programme of choral music for young people in the United Kingdom.
Our Choral Directors work with some 3500 children weekly (over 100 groups across 53 schools), returning to their bases to run our elite choirs; 6 boys’ choirs, 6 girls’ choirs, 5 mixed children’s choirs, 2 youth choirs, 3 university choirs and an adult choir, all drawing their membership from our school sessions. more »

In the booklet to this CD of otherwise largely unavailable music, the composer Louis Andriessen remembers his father Hendrik (1892-1981). "Certainly due to his Catholic background, my father’s grand love for the French culture was of ultimate importance to his development as a
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Thomas Leech, Director of the Schools Singing Programme, has received the 2015 Worshipful Company of Educators' Master's Award. The award, one of the company's annual prizes given for outstanding contributions to education, was presented by the Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland His
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The Huddersfield Boys’ Choir are back in Yorkshire after a fabulous tour to Lancashire. They stayed for three days during which they sang at St Mary & St Michael's Church, Garstang and Cartmel Priory as well as enjoying a fabulous activity day at Winmarleigh Hall.

It was my great pleasure to work with the choirs of Leeds Cathedral during the beginning of I hope will become a long-term partnership and exchange between Notre Dame University and the Diocese of Leeds.

Bradford Catholic Girls' Choir - part of the Diocese's Schools Singing Programme and supported by Holy Family School (Keighley) and St. Bede's and St. Joseph's Catholic College (Bradford) - broadcast two editions of the BBC's long-running Daily Service on Radio 4. The service for St. Patrick's Day
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